PEAT INDUSTRY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000600030367-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 3, 2011
• Sequence Number: 367
• Publication Date: December 31, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIFICATION CONFIDENTIAL,' SECURITY IMFOFU. ICH
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT
INFORMATION REPORT rO NO.
PLACE
ACQUIRED
DATE
ACQUIRED
DATE DISTR. 5/ Dec 1952
NO. OF PAGES 3
NO. OF ENCLS.
(LISTED BELOW)
SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
2. Fiat fuel is a very icrportant fa-tor in the Soviet economy. Thousands of
fa.%torits, both ia:ge and. small, use peat fuel. For instance, almost the
Entire textile industry of Moscow, Ivanovo, Yaroslavl, and Kalinin use peat
fuel. Fart of Leningrad Oblast alsc vses peat fuel. All of the large electric
power stations in Moscow Oblaet (such as "Shatura" and the power transmission
plant iman_ ICLaa:son) used peat fuel producing hund_eds of thousands of kilo-
watte of electric power for the so-called "Moscow Ring". The Kashira electric
Power station, which aleo s?,pplied electric power tc the Moscow Ring, used coal
produced nsar Moscow.
Peat c cu,iss a very imrortant place in the fuel balance of the USSR. It ranks
third in the ameuut cf cone:mption. (Coal. ranks let, mazut becond, fire wood
fourth, oil shale fifth, and other fuels sixth.)
CLASSS) ICAT!ON COXF1'A NTIA'.' SECUR-TTY (NFL LOTION
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'' . A large etar:h and molarees p.ls_,Z ?.= 1:: eted An the no: th Cal;:asus near the city
of Armavir. Its Hera i, Kuhpo-Gk" and beside. rcdy
keep- (for. p- 1rT8 star h and molasses it
6.O0C head cf :tittle which are supplied the army. This
factory also prod';;--F a gal.,-=K l a =p,,; sad. kind. of h.er. :~ bie _.uit made of wheat flour )
for the Re i army,
7. Peat isutfciz-d in the USSR not only f;:elt,:, also f:,:r ferti:Lizer, barn litter,
peat. t _g_ a.le rei:~ing, in e.ccats;;:^t:j,cn as
lurgy. Peat t_oks is burned out of peat - and i6 ~k-ed for fort smelting ing hi hi and ie metal.
Not ev=_ry kind of is gh-grade atY,3
peat 1- suitable fcr .,king, only thy mo,s hill es+ ^rhitch Iu
well in holds together; is hiunified, 9111 Lai a aioi.nto ash content
of 0,5 - 0.5 U-r :eat.
8. Peat i= ~oksd in the Rid'kinskiy prat :oking F1art lceatad at station F,ed'kino on
the ii rail oad ling betve-n thy tovna of 11'ino and Kalinin.. Coke
manufa,.t:ared ther_ is shipped by rail to the Kos, Gore iretall.urgi.ca1 plant near the
town ci' 'Kiln, where highs 47=cl.ity st-- 1 ;m-21t,-d.. Obviciel_/. this, zteel goers,
to th- Tile m.:niticns plant Other peat :c'sing Fiani..s are at Mazyncvskaya, peat
mine near the city cf Ieningrad. and an the,TT?-als citi-i o,f Zlatcust and Chelyabinsk.
Prior +0 l9=.l 'hers, war = nc other pest ?ok:ing plants now obviously there are many
of then in Mce;.ow, I,_nirgrs.i, Teener 0,bleeis on 'w.. middle Volga; and in the
Urals. l'hr'r were rc p-at -.oki*,g pls.i+,s in the Vkrain.;
be?%sTlpe of nc aegis hill
peat bogs. The bottom r-eat fonts 1^ ?n=. Ukraine- ip ?jnfit fc;r .:oking.
9, The very la:g